Ann Fessler, an adoptee herself, did remarkable research recounting their experiences. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.1. The Girls Who Went Away is a heartbreaking, enlightening, and honest story extraordinarily well told through the voices of over 100 birth mothers taking place post WWII to early 70s. In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v.
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